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The Best Places to Elope in Todos Santos

A bohemian artist town on the Baja Pacific where the cactus desert meets wild surf beaches, an hour from Cabo but a world away in spirit. Colour, culture, and dramatic coast in one place.

You picture a Baja elopement as the resorts and golf of Cabo.

An hour north, a bohemian artist town sits where the desert meets the wild Pacific.

Todos Santos is the cultured, characterful answer to Cabo, with cactus desert, surf beaches, and an artist's soul.

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Tall cardón cactus in the Baja desert with the Pacific Ocean beyond near Todos Santos
Photograph — Mexico · the picture moves
Readers are advised the subjects may wander out of frame.
The town and the desert

Todos Santos is a designated Pueblo Magico: colourful colonial streets, a historic mission church, galleries and artists on every corner, and the cactus desert and Sierra de la Laguna mountains rising behind. It is warm, creative, and grounded in the desert light.

Couple in the cactus desert near the artist town of Todos Santos Baja Mexico
Todos Santos is a Pueblo Magico: colourful colonial streets, a historic mission, galleries and artists on every corner, and the cactus desert and Sierra de la Laguna rising behind. Warm, creative, grounded in desert light. — stationary
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The town and the desert

Couple in the cactus desert near the artist town of Todos Santos Baja Mexico
Todos Santos is a Pueblo Magico: colourful colonial streets, a historic mission, galleries and artists on every corner, and the cactus desert and Sierra de la Laguna rising behind. Warm, creative, grounded in desert light. — stationary

Todos Santos is a designated Pueblo Magico: colourful colonial streets, a historic mission church, galleries and artists on every corner, and the cactus desert and Sierra de la Laguna mountains rising behind. It is warm, creative, and grounded in the desert light.

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The Pacific coast

Minutes from town, the Pacific delivers dramatic surf beaches, powerful waves, wide empty sand, and enormous sunsets, with whales offshore in winter. It is wild and elemental, the raw counterpoint to the town's warmth, and few couples ever think to elope here.

The right spot depends on the mood you want. As your Elopement Curator I plan the day, coordinate the ceremony and vendors, and both shoot and film it. Twelve years and 240+ couples in, Todos Santos is the most cultured and characterful elopement in Baja.

Let the Elopement Compass point you to your Todos Santos setting →

Couple on a wild Pacific surf beach near Todos Santos Baja Mexico
Minutes from town, the Pacific delivers dramatic surf beaches, powerful waves, wide empty sand, and enormous sunsets, with whales offshore in winter. Wild and elemental, the raw counterpoint to the town's warmth. — stationary
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